Clinical trials: Approach/Avoidance Behavior, open to volunteers
Healthy Participants, Anxiety Disorders (With High Anxiety Symptoms)
tVNS and Approach-Avoidance Behavior in Anhedonia and Anxiety
This study investigates if anhedonia and anxiety symptoms are associated with alterations in reinforcement learning, effort trade-offs for wins vs. punishments, and foraging behavior under threat.
- Conditions
- Healthy Participants, Anxiety Disorders (With High Anxiety Symptoms), Depressive Disorders (With High Anhedonia Symptoms), Comorbid Depression and Anxiety Disorder (With High Anhedonia and High Anxiety Symptoms)
- Trial name
- NCT07476469
- Testing
- tVNS
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 104 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dr. Nils B. Kroemer
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Alcohol Drinking
Approach-Avoidance and Alcohol Challenge Study in PTSD
Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have greater prevalence of alcohol use disorders (AUDs), with this comorbidity associated with worse illness outcomes, yet there remains limited mechanistic understanding of…
- Trial name
- PACS (NCT06002633)
- Testing
- Alcohol
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas at Austin
Depressive Disorder, Major, Anxiety Disorder
Pharmaco-Neuroimaging Studies of Approach/Avoidance Behaviors and Post-Mortem Studies: Pharmacological Manipulation
The study will investigate whether a nociceptin receptor antagonist will normalize neural and behavioral processes of approach/avoidance decision-making in unmedicated individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) and anxiety…
- Trial name
- NCT05232032
- Testing
- Nociceptin Receptor Antagonist, Aversive stimuli
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 112 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mclean Hospital
Approach/Avoidance Behavior
Personalized Theta-burst Stimulation for Long-lasting Changes in Approach/Avoidance Behavior
This study will assess the long-lasting effects of personalized theta burst stimulation (TBS), a repetitive form of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), over the left prefrontal cortex on the approach/avoidance behavior.
- Trial name
- NCT07161505
- Testing
- TBS-EEG, TBS-EEG / Spatial Control, TBS / Temporal Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 26 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University